Fed policy...no brass=no bullets

I've seen bare ammo shelves...is this the reason?

Feds undercut civilian supply of ammunition

Policy leaves manufacturers without brass to make bullets

Posted: March 17, 2009 | 9:00 pm Eastern | © 2009 WorldNetDaily

By Drew Zahn

A recent government policy change has taken a bite out of the nation's already stressed ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find bullets for private gun owners.

Georgia Arms is a company that for the last 15 years has been purchasing fired brassshell casings from the Department of Defense and private government surplusliquidators. The military collects the discarded casings from fired rounds, then sells them through liquidators to companies like Georgia Arms that remanufacture the casings into ammunition for the law enforcement and civilian gun owner communities.

But earlier this month, Georgia Arms received a canceled order, informed by its supplier that the government now requires fired brass casings be mutilated, in other words, destroyed to a scrap metal state.

The policy change, handed down from the Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency, cuts a supply leg out from underneath ammunition manufacturers. more...